The Call of the Wild

A reasonable example of a dog-story (and frankly, I'm glad the dog looks a little CGI stylized - films with real looking dogs going through these kinda stunts make me uneasy as I worry about how many dogs got hurt or maimed along the way). While the plot is largely an odd collection of incidents as Buck goes from pampered judge's dog to Sled Dog to Harrison Ford's Best Friend, there's some decent moments along the way, along with a collection of weird stuff (including getting Bradley Whitford in a Southern-style-mansion-with-slaves that inevitably invokes "Get Out", and Dan Stevens channeling the soul of late-period Cary Elwes as a foppish villain). Harrison Ford's narration plays like the narrative blu-tack that it is, though when he's actually on screen he's not nearly as sleepy as he is in voice over (he does appear to enjoy being round CGI the Dog). And it's touching and adorable and probably has no resemblance to anything that's actually happened in nature or any theories of animal behaviour ever, but I still mostly enjoyed it.